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How to Face an Unknown Future
This week’s newsletter is from Henry Lee. Henry is an innovative interdisciplinary designer and researcher with a passion for creating human-centered experiences through a blend of research and design intelligence.
Creatives often face an unknown future.
Sometimes because we will define it through new design styles and paradigms, and sometimes because it is going to be defined for us through new tools, user wants, or delivery vehicles. Because of this, it can be hard to know how to best prepare for the future. New tools, software, methods, and trends are all a part of those possibilities.
In recent years, AI has presented creatives with an endless supply of uncertain futures, even threatening creativity as a future endeavor altogether.
In order to prepare for this, Futures Thinking can help make sense of it all.
Futures Thinking, or Futures Studies, is a set of tools, methods, and mindsets that encourage a proactive rather than reactive stance, allowing us to partially predict and pivot accordingly rather than simply react to the futures creatives face. Whether or not you choose to incorporate AI into your work, it will inevitably affect your work, and it is best to contend with it now instead of…
